Currently reading Plum Island, a hard-bitten-homicide-detective-with-no-tact mystery. The plot just took a turn for the worse. A coworker lent me the book and I suppose I have to deliver a 30-second book report on the damn thing when I give it back to him.

If there is one thing a remote-controlled, silent and unseeable surveillance/killing machine needs, it’s more whimsy. -- Marcus

I'm reading two books right now. 1776 by David McCullough and The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis. Just started 1776, so I can't really comment on it yet (only about 50 pages in), but I'm half way through The Silver Chair, and I like it a lot (more than I liked The Voyage of the Dawn Treader anyway). I'm trying to get all the Narnia books read. Yes, they're classified as children's books, but they're still really fun to read!

Alex wrote:I'm reading two books right now. 1776 by David McCullough and The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis. Just started 1776, so I can't really comment on it yet (only about 50 pages in), but I'm half way through The Silver Chair, and I like it a lot (more than I liked The Voyage of the Dawn Treader anyway). I'm trying to get all the Narnia books read. Yes, they're classified as children's books, but they're still really fun to read!

I read all the books couple years ago myself. I view The Chronicles of Narnia more as a suitable for all ages than a children's book.

The best things in life are free.http://www.gentoo.orgGuy 1: Surely, you will fold with me.Guy 2: Alright, but don't call me Shirley.

Clinical psychiatry: a textbook for students and physicians by E. Kraepelin - one of the famous and unfortunately very rare books in psychiatry. You know, this is the first books that does consider schizophrenia to be a disease (though kraepelin calls it dementia praecox), or tells you something like manic-depressive illness exists. Got a facsimile, unfortunately without the pictures.

Signs & symptoms of psychiatry - another rare relic from another time. Psychoanalitically oriented, hard to chew on but not bad. Nice buy for 1 $ :d

It's reading time - with the dollar being so low (Belgian here), I really values to buy those books in America.

Just got "No Country for Old Men" from Amazon (ordered book and movie together), and am looking forward to reading it. Font is pretty big and it's only 300+ pages so it'll probably be a one-day job.

Chigurh for President '08!

"No I don't want the Ask toolbar! No I don't want Bing as my default search! No I don't want to make Chrome my default browser!""Good grief, man! WHAT are you trying to install on that poor computer?""Antivirus."

Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations-these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. -C.S. Lewis

Hoser wrote:...Inkling - that sound very interesting.......is it any good?

It's short and intense. If you've recently experienced a loss of a close friend or family member, it can be deeply personal . Lewis questions his faith and all he believes to be real and makes some bizarre assertions initially.

If you're reading it as an intellectual pursuit, you should read The Problem of Pain first. That's more of a theodicy and is quite good. It's written by an intellectual apologist (Lewis) who had not yet experienced an intense personal loss.

But after the death of his wife from cancer, he kept a journal in the midst of his bitter grief, which was later published as A Grief Observed. In it, he throws much of what he wrote in The Problem of Pain out the window. The two make a short but great back-to-back read.

Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations-these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. -C.S. Lewis